World Net Daily reports?
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday against parents who sued their local school district after their elementary-age children were given a sexually charged survey, saying there is “no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children.” The three-judge panel of the full court further ruled that parents “have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students.”
The opinion affirms the earlier decision against the parents, quotes approvingly from the lower court ruling:
[t]he Meyer and Pierce cases, we think, evince the principle that the state cannot prevent parents from choosing a specific educational program ? whether it be religious instruction at a private school or instruction in a foreign language. … We do not think, however, that this freedom encompasses a fundamental constitutional right to dictate the curriculum at the public school to which they have chosen to send their children. [emphasis added]
and says it for the Ninth Circuit, here:
we affirm that the Meyer-Pierce right does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door. The parents? asserted right ?to control the upbringing of their children by introducing them to matters of and relating to sex in accordance with their personal and religious values and beliefs,? by which they mean the right to limit what public schools or other state actors may tell their children regarding sexual matters, is not encompassed within the Meyer-Pierce right to control their children?s upbringing and education.
And yet people sniff at the term “government schools”; the Ninth Circuit helpfully reminds us here who’s ultimately in charge.
